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Re:AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a... by bubblethink on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:34AM (#24418735)
>So good for security

This is entirely debatable. This is essentially bootguard for socketed CPUs similar to how most laptops behave. For one, it makes fixing the crap that Dell and their contractors write impossible. You cannot replace the bios with coreboot.

For all these features that require blessings, I really liked apple's use of the term notarised. Everyone should call these notarisation features rather than security ones. It's as boring and useless as going to a notary, if you have ever done that.

Re:AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a... by josh2600 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:32AM (#24419117)
Notarization is good. Intel calls enclave signing “attestation”, which is clear to me.